Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-26, 02:37

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Very interesting. My computer is the basket edge-case of edge-cases. So the game *does* run in full-screen dual-monitor mode with only two displays attached. It really doesn't like my rotated second screen though, constantly flickers showing both a rotated and non-rotated view. With dgVoodoo …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:33

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Just to be sure we're testing apples-to-apples, I've gone and installed the base Supreme Commander. It's behaving just like Forged Alliance, in terms of secondary display and missing gate-in visual effect.

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:02

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edit: redacted

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 11:48

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I presume that debug DLL is supposed to write a logfile somewhere when the game is run? Where would that be?

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 11:40

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> Btw, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is the same game as plain Supreme Commander? I have the latter one. Substantially the same game. I don't know if engine improvements were made, but if there was they were pretty minor. There's a couple new units, an entire new faction, and a new campaign with …

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 06:15

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Missing gate-in effects https://imgur.com/a/WO2PJkc

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-25, 05:46

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Game behaves differently, but not correctly. https://i.imgur.com/CNbyPpr.png Second display is not initializing. Primary display also flickers and locks up upon entering into a match. Game behaves correctly if I disable the Secondary display. I think there's also some visual effects not showing up …

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Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-12, 01:54

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First of all, thank you so much for this project. It has enabled me to play several old games I'd given up for dead on modern computers! One of the things Supreme Commander was very notable for when it launched in 2007, was the ability to use two monitors - typically you'd have a "primary" monitor …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-05, 16:57

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Sorry to say, but you are wrong. Here is the rather short list of All games that do NOT use custom instruments. All the other ones do (many hundreds). ... ... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=48500 https://minirevver.weebly.com/mt-32-music.html I take some exception to that list. Just …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-05, 04:32

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Since few MT-32 games/Midi files use only the default instrument set That's not my experience. Almost all games use the default instruments for music reproduction. Some will use custom instruments for sound effects. A very few will use a couple of custom instruments for music. The only game I can …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-04, 19:36

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Sounds easy. Is that really only a different mapping of instruments? No traps like percussion is on different channel or alike? Could you provide the MT32 list, or point me at a resource where I could find it? MT-32 percussion is on channel 10 I think, same as General MIDI. Some googling found …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2021-08-04, 17:57

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Would it be at all possible to get MT-32 instrument mappings in DOSMid such that when playing back MT-32 MIDI the program will show the correct instruments? I'm not even asking for autodetection of MT-32 MIDI (Which can be troublesome), but just a command-line argument that tells the program "Show …

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Re: Any DOS/iMUSE hackers up for fixing X-Wing?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 02:40

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In both cases, the actual executable is BWING.EXE The floppy BWING.EXE contains one reference to ROLAND.LFD, and several other occurrences of the string 'roland'. whereas the CD BWING.EXE does not include the string 'roland' anywhere.

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Any DOS/iMUSE hackers up for fixing X-Wing?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 01:09

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Ah, good old X-Wing, and it's awesome soundtrack, dynamic music, and haphazardly broken MT-32 support There are two releases of this game of interest (That I know about): The original Floppy disk release: - Soundtrack was supposedly composed on an MT-32 - Blasts out SysEx at high-speed, crashing …

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Re: Master of Orion with hardware MT-32 dropping notes?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 00:12

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Delaysysex made no difference. This is during playback, not initialization, so I don't think this is a Sysex issue. I hunted down an older copy of the game, and it isn't helping much. The older version seems to screw up a bit less often than the newer version, but it is still screwing up. I'm …

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Re: Master of Orion with hardware MT-32 dropping notes?

Posted on 2019-10-29, 00:58

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/n08o4humzcax4hq/SAVE4.GAM?dl=0 Just hit next turn, and when the shooting starts move the fleet in and blow up the Klackon garrison ships. Don't shoot at the planet or you'll kill them all. That should reliably provoke the Angry Klackon music. For the GNN music, just blow up …

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Re: Master of Orion with hardware MT-32 dropping notes?

Posted on 2019-10-29, 00:38

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Probably the easiest way would be to get the game to play the angry Klackon music for a few minutes, and listen for any notes that sound incorrect or hang. Alternatively, listen to the GNN music for a few minutes, and see if all the chimes are playing or if some are missing. I can supply a savegame …

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Master of Orion with hardware MT-32 dropping notes?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 22:36

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So I'm trying to record the music from Master of Orion, and I'm having some vexing troubles. Overall, this game works much like I remember it working. But certain pieces of music, seemingly semi-randomly, appear to miss or hang up on certain notes. The angry Klackon music is most notable so far. The …

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Re: Interfacing a modern(ish) machine with a real hardware MT-32

Posted on 2010-09-17, 05:56

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Just put in a bid on a 2-port Roland USB MIDI interface... If the modern Roland interface can't work with the old Roland synth I just might throw in the towel!

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Interfacing a modern(ish) machine with a real hardware MT-32

Posted on 2010-09-17, 03:05

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Hello, I'm not certain if here or the MT-32 Emulation forum is more appropriate (I'm not emulating the sound module!) I'm on a core2 rig running Windows XP 64-bit, with no native MIDI interface on the board. I've got a cheapo USB MIDI adapter, and while it "works" my MT-32 is reporting checksum …

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